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A costly mess; Editorial; Beaver County Times; March 18, 2010.
The editorial leads off with “For all the fear-mongering taking place in regard to health-care reform, one important fact is conveniently overlooked by the critics: the present system is an expensive, wasteful, unfair mess.” This is not true. I haven’t heard anyone claim our healthcare delivery isn’t more expensive than necessary and includes too much waste. The editorial’s misrepresentation is simply an attempt to avoid intelligent debate. You see, if you present a proposal the left doesn’t like, they ignore it then claim you made no proposal or “overlooked” the problem. That tactic ensures lefties don’t have to debate the pros and cons of your proposal. I don’t know the Times definition of “unfair,” though I have my suspicions.
As was the case in “Sinking ship of state” and “No quick cure,” this editorial didn’t suggest a solution. Though Times editorials in this century appear to support a government-run, taxpayer-funded healthcare monopoly, in this editorial a paper that’s always telling us what to do doesn’t take an explicit position. I could be wrong, but I suspect the Times is waiting for Democrats to cram through a healthcare bill so it will know what to support and talk up.
For more on this topic, please read my paper entitled “Healthcare.”
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